The Boy Who Wrote Poetry
1954
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An autobiographical short story by Yukio Mishima, in which a boy who acknowledges himself as a poetic genius and is intoxicated in the pleasures of poetry writing, hears about an amorous experience from a close senpai and comes to realise his own ridiculousness and subconscious narcissism, bringing him onto the road of self-consciousness. An autobiographical work in which Mishima, about to turn 30, calmly reflects on his 15-year old self whom was infatuated with poetry, which is an important key in the exploration of the turning point of how Mishima chose to become a novelist instead of a poet, and of his portfolio of works overall, on this subject.
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Author
Yukio Mishima
Author · 44 books
Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫) was born in Tokyo in 1925. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University’s School of Jurisprudence in 1947. His first published book, The Forest in Full Bloom, appeared in 1944 and he established himself as a major author with Confessions of a Mask (1949). From then until his death he continued to publish novels, short stories, and plays each year. His crowning achievement, the Sea of Fertility tetralogy—which contains the novels Spring Snow (1969), Runaway Horses (1969), The Temple of Dawn (1970), and The Decay of the Angel (1971)—is considered one of the definitive works of twentieth-century Japanese fiction. In 1970, at the age of forty-five and the day after completing the last novel in the Fertility series, Mishima committed seppuku (ritual suicide)—a spectacular death that attracted worldwide attention.
